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lipodystrophia

lipodystrophia is the archaic form of lipodystrophy.

Meaning of lipodystrophy

Noun

lipodystrophy (countable and uncountable, plural lipodystrophies)

  1. A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
    • Among genetic lipodystrophies, the fat loss is observed either since birth as in congenital generalized lipodystrophy, or it occurs later in life as in familial partial lipodystrophy.2007, Vinaya Simha, Anil K. Agarwal, 18: Inherited and Acquired Lipodystrophies: Disorders of Adipose Tissue Development, Differentiation, and Death, Giamila Fantuzzi, Theodore Mazzone (editors)...

Forms of lipodystrophia

plurallipodystrophias

Questions about lipodystrophia

What is lipodystrophia the archaic form of?
Lipodystrophia is the archaic form of lipodystrophy.

Words near lipodystrophia in the dictionary

  1. lipodipeptides
  2. lipodistrophic
  3. lipodistrophy
  4. lipodomic
  5. lipoduction
  6. lipodystrophia
  7. lipodystrophic
  8. lipodystrophies
  9. lipodystrophy
  10. lipoed
  11. lipoedema

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